the ball like we had in law school. tell us the truth of what you're going to do. ryan used to do that when he was talking about the ryan budget. he put specifics in the ryan budget. scary to me, talking about privatizing social security, voucherizing medicare, but if that's what you want to do, tell the public. i don't want to see this candidacy -- i remember just weeks ago, mitt romney was a severe conservative. now he's trying to tell people he's not. i really just want this one, and i think biden's going to give it to us, to be raw, authentic truth telling in this debate. >> president obama said on the radio, he was talking to tom joyner on tom joyner's radio show. and he said he was just too pote. another sort of analysis of what went wrong. let's play a little bit of that. >> the debate, i think it's fair to say, i was just too polite. you know, because it's hard to sometimes just keep on saying what you're saying isn't true. it gets repetitive. >> would you say that was your analysis of how that went? was the problem in that debate that he was just too polite? >> well, i'm not -- i w
